Posted on 06/20/2015 12:28:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence, researchers have declared.
Researchers say a new study shows 'without any significant doubt' that we are entering the sixth great mass extinction on earth.
The study says that the window for conserving threatened species is rapidly closing.
The study shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event,' said Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment who led the research.
The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, shows that even with extremely conservative estimates, species are disappearing up to about 100 times faster than the normal rate between mass extinctions, known as the background rate....
Despite the gloomy outlook, there is a meaningful way forward, according to Ehrlich and his colleagues.
'Avoiding a true sixth mass extinction will require rapid, greatly intensified efforts to conserve already threatened species, and to alleviate pressures on their populations – notably habitat loss, over-exploitation for economic gain and climate change,' the study's authors write.
In the meantime, the researchers hope their work will inform conservation efforts, the maintenance of ecosystem services and public policy....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Because Michael Crichton's 2004 book "State of Fear" hit the mark dead center, the Union of Concerned Scientists ("science for a healthy planet and safer world"), and every Left-leaning outlet, proceeded to rip it apart.
Ice ages, continental drift, extinctions and severe climate change are a part of nature. Nothing humans can do or not do will change this.
New England and Northern Europe were covered by glaciers. The Sahara Desert was once under water.
A Large Ineffective Government that Can't Protect it's own borders
A Slaver Empire Rising in the East.
Autocrats gaining More and More power.
Technologists Anarchy, who want to use our Amazing Machines to tear down everything.
Also, There are Elvis Impersonators.
He nails it - great stand up.
Good observations. Elvis impersonators may be the only vestige of civilization left, at some point.
James Hansen was listed as one of the Science Advisers for “Creation Care” but that information has been removed from the web.
James Hansen also told Diane Rehm that CEOs should be put on trial for crimes against humanity and that “contrarians” should be silenced.
For your simplistic mind, the question is not what happened but what would have happened without scientific growth and discovery. It is demonstrably provable that economic conditions, scientific discoveries, and even medical science advanced from 600 to 1300 A.D. Moreover, these advances took place in Europe FASTER than anywhere else in the world (Lateen sails, eyeglasses, clock technology, cannon development). Now if you're going to be so dense as to argue this, at least TRY to inform yourself first by consulting some of the sources I gave you. Here are more: Joel Mokyr, "The Lever of Riches," or Pernoud, "Those Terrible Dark Ages: Debunking the Myths," or Peter Wells, "Barbarians to Angels."
This is global warmism you are peddling. Please stop.
As I was reading about the Erlich husband and wife Clancy’s book came to mind. Have to wonder if the Breitling might have been based on the Erlichs.
And the ending is perfect justice.
“You want to live in harmony with nature, then go do it.”
(After leaving the eco-terrorist team bereft of any technology and naked as jaybirds in the remote reaches of the Amazon jungle.)
One of us says the Dark ages were made up. One does not.
Not hard to determine who is brainless here.
Tuxedo Park "The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history.
Legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the twentieth century—Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, and others—at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, in the late 1930s. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb..."
Sounds good to me. Shall we start with Mecca first then work our way outward?
Wait a second. I just reread my original post that set you off.
I am not talking about global warming/overpop being something we can do nothing about. I am talking about liberal idiots being in command and not enough of us left to change that.
“Also, There are Elvis Impersonators. “
Yea but Rex rocks so The King gets a pass.
Paul Ehrlich, will hopefully be recycled soon.
Evil never dies. Just metastasizes.
But yea.
Everything is already dead, even humans are extinct, just as predicted decades ago. Due to our lack of action on doomsday predictions, we are actually living (or are we dead? comatose?) in the virtual world of the Matrix and don’t even know it.
You would think that after millennia of doomsday predictions NOT being true, hoaxsters and their adherents would hide their heads in shame.
In some schools of thought, I, as a Christian, am another doomsday adherent as I believe in the Second Coming of Christ. Perhaps I’m just another hypocrite.
I wonder how many new species were discovered during this time?
They just keep making assertions not supported by reality. Yes some minor species are being lost today but that has always been the case whether it be via the encroachment of man or not. Mother nature of which I would assume these “scientists” would acknowledge humanity is a part of has when we exclude the hand of man been a very harsh and unforgiving mistress with countless behemoths and other great beasts ending in the dustbin of history.
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to conserve and protect nature in a reasonable fashion but the fact is even if man were not here many of the extinctions of low population creatures and even some of the larger ones would happen anyway for it is the way of survival of the fittest and sometimes simply survival of the fortunate. The idea that some how the climate or the ecosystems have ever been static assumes something that has never existed on this planet. Yes we should try our best to avoid causing apocalyptic change to the environment and its species but there is no indisputable evidence that we are and for all the angst about how horrible humanity is we are the first species to our knowledge who ever took time out of rutting , eating and surviving to give a damn and when the time comes it will be man not the bunny rabbits that for the first time in Earths history have the capability to stop asteroids from resetting the Earth’s species/environmental clock so in the end it will most certainly be man and his evil technology that saves all those wonderful species that is if environmentalists don’t stall technologically development and make all their own efforts one big cosmic joke.
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